Help in keeping your desktop organized

For most of us, our PCs eventually resemble our attics — crammed with stuff we’re sure we’ll want to use again — someday.

If your Windows desktop is a sea of applications and file icons — some needed and others, not so much — two apps can help you get your desktop organized.

Nimi Places: Free, but rough around the edges

Nimi Places (site) is free and organizes your applications and files into translucent, onscreen containers. The download process is quick, though you do have to jump through a simple CAPTCHA. After using Nimi for a while, I got the feeling it’s not fully baked.

When you first load the program, Nimi opens the Choose desktop layout dialog box. You can select one of the preset templates listed below (see Figure 1) or set the location of a container on the desktop manually. With my version of Nimi, the preset options and their respective containers were:

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